bowery

Definitions


[ˈbaʊəri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a street and district in New York City associated with drunks and vagrants


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century: built on the site of governor Peter Stuyvesant's bowery ‘farm’, from Dutch bouwerij; the district became noted for its cheap lodging houses and saloons




definition by Oxford Dictionaries